On Aug 4, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Sebastian Tymków wrote:
Hi,
I wonder if it's normal behaviour that indexes created in memory
have long creation time.
No, but the problem has more to do with caching. If you use a client
that fetches the same data often (such as message headers/sizes) then
Dovecot will do the same work for each request. In that case in-memory
indexes perform poorly. This is more of a problem with webmail clients
and less of a problem with Outlook/Thunderbird.
If you're using POP3 that also performs poorly without indexes with
v1.0. v1.1 makes it better.
Other problem is that indexes created on nfs sometimes get crushed
and I need to delete indexes in case of fetching mails ( I see mails on hd but when telnet on host and make
stat I don't see any).
So Dovecot says there are no mails while there are in fact?
Does version 1.1.x correct this errors ?
v1.1 makes NFS work a lot better, so it's highly recommended.
And what is better to use : nfs or memory indexing ? Can someone point me adventages and disadventages of using both
solutions?
Have you read http://wiki.dovecot.org/NFS ?